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Tommy Mitchell Ⓥ
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ex-vanalles, oud-whatever. hij/hem.
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tommymitchell.bsky.social
Gelukkig is er een relevante soundtrack voor '26 op komst
open.spotify.com/album/3TjfXa...
JLD
open.spotify.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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fooyatchong.bsky.social
De rode draad in zijn carrière.
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Not sure how you can rationalize still maintaining a regular presence over there!
josiegz.bsky.social Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 3d
Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.

‘Add blood, forced smile’:

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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decorrespondent.nl
Onze grootste en belangrijkste bondgenoot uit de twintigste eeuw is nu de machtigste en gevaarlijkste criminele organisatie ter wereld, schrijft @robwijnberg.bsky.social. Donald Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand.

Lees Robs column hier:
Donald Trump is het grootste gevaar voor de wereld sinds Adolf Hitler
Onze grootste en belangrijkste bondgenoot uit de twintigste eeuw is nu de machtigste en gevaarlijkste criminele organisatie ter wereld. Donald Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch ...
decorrespondent.nl
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
tommymitchell.bsky.social
I, for one, am shocked.
fortune.com/2026/01/07/a...
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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laurenshof.online
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

my analysis of current events

connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...
The implicit theory behind the open social web was that platform quality would determine outcomes. Build something that’s better, and in combination with the incumbent getting worse, this would lead to such difference in quality, user experience and safety that at some point people would switch from X to alternatives like Mastodon or Bluesky. This theory held up for a while in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 it started to falter, as Musk aligned himself with Trump, the signup waves to the alternative platforms effectively stopped. In early 2026, this theory is now really over, because X has fundamentally changed. Mastodon and Bluesky are not in competition anymore with the platform X, because X has changed. It changed from being a platform to the power structure for the neo-royalty, with the public square shambling along as a zombie, animated by everyone who still treats X like it’s 2015. You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem.
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
tommymitchell.bsky.social
*facepams self*
owenblacker.bsky.social Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 5d
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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hellocullen.bsky.social
old gen x guy yelling "JESUS AND MARY CHAIN!" when he hurts his back in the garage
January 9, 2026 at 4:44 AM
tommymitchell.bsky.social
Alsook (2): dittum
sarahz.bsky.social Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 6d
I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
tommymitchell.bsky.social
De chatbot grijpt niet in. De chatbot kreeg een prompt.
Alsoook: die smeerlapperij betalend maken, zegt gewoon “Als je geld hebt, mag alles.”

Fuck outta here.
January 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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explaintrade.com
This is also a field test.

If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.

Nothing.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
this is how every outlet should refer to X
Financial Times: Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Trump: We need Greenland. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships.

Reporter: What would the justification be for a claim to Greenland?

Trump: The EU needs us to have it.
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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chrishudsonjr.bsky.social
Time is a flat circle.
Fox News on Venezuela Venezuelans worldwide rally after Maduro's capture sparks celebrations Fox News on Iraq Iraqi-Americans Rejoice at Saddam Defeat
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a corridor on the Enterprise. Two non series regular crew members are standing behind Spock in a bodyguard stance. (Tough guy bodyguard vibe, not Kevin Coster/Whitney Houston bodyguard vibe). Spock is wearing a dress uniform with extra flair, medals, and pins, a golden sash, and has a goatee. He's looking at Kirk, who seems a bit cocky and is wearing a glittery fancy gold sleeveless uniform. Closed caption reads, "Terror must be maintained or the empire is doomed."
January 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
the president is doing a press conference FROM HIS FLORIDA COUNTRY CLUB about launching an illegal war
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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caraforever.bsky.social
Mensen die gisteren nog de grote woorden gebruikten dat het in beslag nemen van Russische tegoeden in strijd zou zijn met het internationaal recht die nu staan te applaudisseren voor ontvoering van een buitenlands regeringsleider.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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anthonyzach.be
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story

www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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errant-signal.com
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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charalanahzard.bsky.social
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
January 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM